It's the time of the year where Chinese everywhere rush home to celebrate the Chines New Year. Traffic gets extra bad, people get extra frustrated and food gets extra expensive. Everywhere you go, your ears are tortured with CNY songs and your eyes are blinded with red, yellow and gold colour in the name of prosperity.
Not forgetting the family members and relatives that you meet once a year, getting together for a family reunion dinner. Nothing beats the chopstick martial arts move you pull everytime you try to get some food in your mouth. The best would still be the astonished look on your cousins' faces when you managed to get a small piece into your mouth before you strike again.
Uncles and aunties ask similar questions according to your age group every year. For primary school kids, they'll complement your growth and academic achievements. Secondary kids usually get reminded of major examinations and tertiary kids are praised for making Daddy and Mommy proud. Young adults get told of how pretty/handsome one turn out to be.
But questions of one's relationship status never fails to make it to the list of questions. Those single suffer through quaries of their ability and choice to look for partners as well as agonize about aunties that tries too hard to set you up. For those with partners, wedding questions are unavoidable. Similarly, interrogation related to children and grandchildren can be heard among the recently married couple.
All in all, CNY is a time for family and getting together to celebrate joyuous moments. Sometimes, sticky situations are inevitable in large family reunion. The best you can do it try your best to hide or come up with wonderful, evassive abilities to dodge these dangerous questions that are utterly annoying.
Happy Chinese New Year everyone and Gob bless!
1 comment:
good luck with all the partner fuss. don't get too stressed over it though, its kinda inevitable. like expecting ballerinas to do silat. theyre impossible. or near impossible.
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